jbguy wrote:
I actually had problems with the way some applicants/accepted students acted towards my fiance during visits and accepted weekends. During the course of normal conversation, people would ask what my fiance did, and she would explain that she is an elementary school teacher. For whatever reason, a few individuals took this as a cue that she was below them and treated her as such. These individuals essentially acted as though she did not exist when she asked questions or attempted to make conversation. They did not know that she has two degrees from Notre Dame (undergrad and grad), and is easily smarter than me and probably most of the other people in the room.
It can change very quickly.
My wife is also an elementary school teacher. She teaches in an International school. Lot's of high fliers and people with MBA's on ex-pat packages send their kids to her school. She has the power to reject their applications..... some of those parents can be very very brown-nosey because they don't want their children to be rejected
In International schools, the parents are also interviewed to see if they are of the right mentality to support the school, so sometimes you would get a good student, but if the parents were obnoxious, arrogant or rude in anyway, their child would get rejected, because the school considers everyone, including the parents, part of the school community.